Sunday, July 4, 2010

IT News HeadLines (InfoWorld) 04/07/2010



iPhone 4 antenna woes prompt Apple to dump return fee

Apple has dropped the usual restocking fee for iPhone customers who want to return their smartphones, the company confirmed on Friday.

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Microsoft links free SQL database with ASP .Net
Microsoft is enabling its free SQL CE (SQL Server Compact Edition) database to work within ASP.Net Web applications, thus providing a lightweight database option for ASP.Net Web development, a Microsoft official said this week.
ASP.Net is a Web framework. SQL CE is an embedded database engine enabling easy database storage, said Scott Guthrie, corporate vice president in the Microsoft Developer Division, in a blog post this week.

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Appeal lodged against EU approval of Oracle-Sun merger
Monty Widenius, a leading open-source software proponent, lodged an appeal on Friday against the European Union's antitrust authorities over their decision to green-light Oracle's acquisition of Sun Microsystems at the beginning of this year.
The appeal was filed to the European Court of Justice in Luxembourg. Widenius was one of the co-developers of MySQL, the open source database software owned by Sun, and now by Oracle.

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iPhone 4 reception: Apple's promised fix
Responding to numerous complaints and criticisms about poor cell signal reception on the iPhone 4, Apple has issued a letter on its Web site saying that the fault is due not to hardware design, but to the algorithm used to calculate the display of bars for signal strength.

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